[OSM-talk] Code of conduct for automated (mass-) edits

[Dave Stubbs]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Paolo Molaro <lupus at oddwiz.org> wrote:
> The first requirement, IMHO, is a better way to communicate with other
> users. I would be in favor of sharing the email address of users
> to make this easier: currently my tool has to parse the web pages
> and submit web forms. There is no reason to make communication harder,
> so let's allow sharing the email address to other (authenticated) users.

Let's not.
Aside from the many privacy issues, this would become a spammer's
dream -- I get enough spam to this address because it's on a public
mailing list, I don't want my nice clean OSM registered address making
a break for the wild too.

Dave